Wife Mary Powe Falconer Sterling Clarke (1804-1890), daughter of Thomas Powe Sr. (1747-1817) and Rachel Streshley Allen Powe (1716 - ) of Chesterfield County, S.C.
Children
Thomas Falconer Sterling, who married Sarah Tait Cooper.
Judge Thomas Sill Sterling (1798-1839) was an early judge in Mississippi, serving as the first one in the New Newton County, in Decatur, at its first session in 1839. He and his brother-in-law Thomas Powe Falconer (1803-`849) attended various Masonic lodges in Mississippi.
THOMAS SILL STERLING, (1798-1839) the second son of Colonel William and Jemima (Ely) Sterling, of Lyme, Connecticut, and a first cousin of his classmate, John M. Sterling, was born in Lyme on April 5, 1798.
He studied law and settled in Winchester, Wayne County, Mississippi. He married on May 25, 1824, Mary Powe Falconer(1804-1890), and then removed about thirty miles northwards to Quitman, in Clarke County, which was thenceforth his residence.
After having served for two terms in the legislature, he was elected in 1833, under the new State constitution, Circuit Judge of the Pearl River circuit, and continued in office until his death, at Quitman, from typhoid fever, on January 26, 1839, in his 41st year. He is listed in Brown's "History of Newton County, Mississippi," as the first judge in that county, which was founded in 1839.
His wife survived him. Their children were two sons and a daughter.
From:Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Biographical Notices of Graduates of Yale College (New Haven, Connecticut, 1913), p. 64. (Notes added by editor.)
Wife Mary Powe Falconer Sterling Clarke (1804-1890), daughter of Thomas Powe Sr. (1747-1817) and Rachel Streshley Allen Powe (1716 - ) of Chesterfield County, S.C.
Children
Thomas Falconer Sterling, who married Sarah Tait Cooper.
Judge Thomas Sill Sterling (1798-1839) was an early judge in Mississippi, serving as the first one in the New Newton County, in Decatur, at its first session in 1839. He and his brother-in-law Thomas Powe Falconer (1803-`849) attended various Masonic lodges in Mississippi.
THOMAS SILL STERLING, (1798-1839) the second son of Colonel William and Jemima (Ely) Sterling, of Lyme, Connecticut, and a first cousin of his classmate, John M. Sterling, was born in Lyme on April 5, 1798.
He studied law and settled in Winchester, Wayne County, Mississippi. He married on May 25, 1824, Mary Powe Falconer(1804-1890), and then removed about thirty miles northwards to Quitman, in Clarke County, which was thenceforth his residence.
After having served for two terms in the legislature, he was elected in 1833, under the new State constitution, Circuit Judge of the Pearl River circuit, and continued in office until his death, at Quitman, from typhoid fever, on January 26, 1839, in his 41st year. He is listed in Brown's "History of Newton County, Mississippi," as the first judge in that county, which was founded in 1839.
His wife survived him. Their children were two sons and a daughter.
From:Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Biographical Notices of Graduates of Yale College (New Haven, Connecticut, 1913), p. 64. (Notes added by editor.)
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